CURRENT MISSION

eat the sun

ABOUT ME

I really like colors and laughter and the diversity of animals and human societies. I like the climate of Pacific Northwest summers, and the limitless worlds within worlds that exist in Southeast Asia, and the coziness of Scandinavia.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf and I host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Great, friendly, amazing people with big hearts and open homes and comments that stretch my little world view like how fat stomachs stretch pants

Interests

Evolution, animals, the diversity of living forms, COLORS (especially pinks, grays, blues, and purples), drawing with pens, performance poetry that feels both insightful and absurd, answering big questions very slowly in ways that force one to synthesize across very disparate fields, the social organization of insects, wrong theories that try to explain everything, personal philosophies, old-school ethnography, old-school sociology, Gods (especially those with animal heads or many arms or tinted skin, etc.), monsters, psychedelia, Scandinavia, Copenhagen, desolate landscapes, the temperature and aesthetic of autumn, decay, cozy coffee shops (see Copenhagen), cinnamon buns, cookies, steamed buns

• animals
• insects
• poetry
• performing arts
• coffee
• drawing
• blues
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

FLICKS: stuff that celebrates life and nature, animated, stylistic, absurd, quiet, thoughtful
(e.g. Planet Earth, that Youtube movie, Strange Little Cat, Midnight in Paris, Tree of Life, Death at a Funeral, stuff from Miyazaki, Pixar, Michel Gondry, Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, some Bergman, and Charlie Kaufman)

TUNES: stuff that feels dynamic and like a journey, stuff that surprises me, stuff with girl singers, stuff from Boston, 60s sunshine, alternative hip hop, weird folk, psychedelic rock
(e.g. Sufjan Stevens, Yes, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, the Guru, Mr. Gnome, Krill, Akron/Family, Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Dan Deacon, FlyLo, the Soulquarians, Sun Ra, Devendra Banhart, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Grace Slick)

READS: Nonsense, absurd, meticulously planned, natural history, old ethnography, comfortable, classic, big, small, pulp noir mystery, explosive and flowing, colorful
(e.g. Alice in Wonderland, Infinite Jest, Discworld, Darwin, Gould, The Tiwi, The Aranda, Jane Austen, Murakami, Ibsen, John Banville, Aldous Huxley, Matthiessen, Rex Stout [Nero Wolfe], Henry Miller, Salman Rushdie)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It's often amazing when you've been friends with someone for a bit and then you see them laugh really hard for the first time, like so hard they can't breathe, or until their legs flail. And then you're like, "woah, that was gleeful." And it brings a grin to your face.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach stamp-making.
I always wanna improve my Hindi.
I can share fruit.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, United States